Keystone XL Pipeline

On Friday President Obama killed the 1,300-mile Canada-U.S. pipeline that would have strengthened our energy independence, helped keep oil prices down and created thousands of high paying jobs. Instead, OPEC is strengthened and job opportunities are diminished.

America spent 7 years examining the project and spent millions preparing to build the Keystone XL pipeline. But the president is a political captive to "green" interests, hates carbon-based energy and cares not a whit about those lost jobs. More than 60 percent of the American people favored the project, but one man didn't.

Is it circumstance that Arab nations will benefit at our expense? No. Are there...

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